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The Defiant Terminal is Coming: Join the Waitlist
We’re excited. We’re getting ready to launch The Defiant Terminal, a platform for investors and analysts to track all DeFi data in one place. Join the waitlist today to be notified as soon as it’s live. You’ll want to be…
SocGen Wants To Borrow 20M Dai on MakerDAO Using Tokenized Bonds as Collateral
There’s a meme on crypto Twitter that calls DeFi the “future of France” as a play on the phrase the future of finance. Well, there may be more truth to the meme than many expected. Société Générale, the third-largest bank…
Startup Uses Facebook Approach to Build Social Network for NFT Collectors
In Facebook’s early days, it famously limited membership to students in colleges and universities, opening a few at a time. Hyype, a new social network for NFT collectors, plans a similar approach but Discord server by Discord server rather than…
DeFi is Getting Into Everything
Crypto isn’t just about simple financial tools anymore. Any project can be a DeFi project. Here’s how. The current crypto bear run is finally seeing a few flecks of green, but some still believe that plunging through multiple death crosses…
EU Regulators Propose Crypto Clampdown
European Defiers better buckle up, because regulators in the EU are attempting to tighten the rules on crypto transfers. On July 20, the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, announced a package of legislative proposals to strengthen…
Liquidations Ease Up as Investors Search for a Crypto Bottom
Where’s the bottom? That’s the vital question investors are asking with ETH down almost 18% in the last 30 days, and with other major Ethereum-based DeFi tokens nosediving as much as 57% in the same time span. Clear Deviations The…
AP Auction of NFTs Ushers in New Era for Digital Media
It’s official: NFTs have gone totally mainstream. That’s the upshot from the announcement that the Associated Press, the 175-year-old paragon of traditional media, is planning to auction off 10 one-of-a-kind NFTs to celebrate its iconic photojournalism. Among the offerings: an…
Vitalik Whiplashes Holders of SHIB Meme Coin and Sells Tokens for Charity
ETH’s and BTC’s impressive recent growth had nothing on dog-based meme coins ––at least until Ethereum’s creator, Vitalik Buterin, stepped in to sell a large chunk of the token’s total supply to give the proceeds to charity. GameStop stock and…
Defiant Degens: How to Farm in DeFi’s First Protocol for Push Notifications
This is a weekly tutorial on the most compelling opportunities to consider yield farming, written by our friend DeFi Dad, an advisor to the Defiant and the Chief DeFi Officer of Zapper. The goal is to expose more Defiant readers…
Ether Locked in DeFi at All-Time High After Market Crash
An all-time high of 11.2M Ether is locked in DeFi protocols, despite a weekend sell-off. Liquidations spiked, while tokens continue sliding. Locked Ether’s resilience may show that DeFi participants do not consider the recent drop in price to signal a long-term…
Defiant Media Raises $1.4M to Build the Financial Information Platform for Web3
Defiant Media Inc., the creator of The Defiant, closed a $1.4M pre-seed round to build the leading information company at the intersection of tech and finance, from investors including IDEO CoLab Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Blockchange Ventures, MetaCartel Ventures, Defiance Capital,…
dYdX Launches Layer 2 Perpetuals Powered by StarkWare
dYdX launched its cross-margined perpetuals product on a Layer 2 scaling solution powered by blockchain software developer StarkWare. The move is significant as it highlights how some of Ethereum’s most well-known DeFi projects are migrating to scaling solutions amid rising…
Gnosis Auction Aims to Solve ICO Volatility
DeFi market mechanism developer Gnosis is launching Gnosis Auction, a tool intended to solve initial price volatility for new ERC-20 tokens. Gnosis Auction combines batch auctions with limit orders. Projects launching new tokens will be able to use Gnosis Auction…
Visa Transacting on Ethereum Signals Stronger TradFi-Crypto Link
Visa is now settling transactions via stablecoins on the Ethereum network. While these are just a tiny sliver of Visa’s total volume, and only apply to one client, the fact that the largest payments network is using a public blockchain…
CREAM and Alpha Finance Get Hacked for $37.5M
DeFi experienced one of its more complex exploits over the weekend. An attack which resulted in ~$37.5M drained from CREAM Finance’s Iron Bank using Alpha Homora’s leveraged debt. Dear Alpha community, our partners, and DeFi users, we'd like to share…
Ethereum Transactions Rise as Price Trends in All-Time High Territory
Transactions on the Ethereum network continue to outpace Bitcoin’s as momentum for decentralised finance protocols snowballs. ETH is testing all-time highs, but has yet to double in price from its record, like BTC did. Highest Since 2017 Ethereum transactions are…
Total Bitcoin Locked in DeFi Nears Record High
The total value of Bitcoin locked in DeFi is rebounding from a three-month low to the highest since November, when BTC in decentralized finance protocols was at its all-time high of 154K BTC, according to data by DeFi Pulse. BTC…
BTC & ETH Massively Outperform Crypto Hedge Funds in 2020
Sometimes “HODL” really is the best advice. Simply holding Bitcoin and Ether massively outperformed crypto hedge funds (along with the vast majority of non-crypto assets) in 2020. BTC kicked off 2020 at just under $3,700 and reached almost $19,400 by…
Synthetix Introduces Layer 2 Staking on Optimism
Things are hopefully about to speed up and get cheaper in Ethereum land, as Synthetix, the synthetic asset issuance protocol, deployed its staking code from Ethereum to Optimism, a Layer 2 scaling solution on Jan. 15. Now, users can migrate…
Building the Investable Layer of Music, by 3LAU
A Creator’s Perspective: Music & Distributed Ledger Tech Tokenizing music is still in experimental stages but my long-term vision is that digital collectibles will evolve into true fractional ownership in a song’s master recording rights, allowing artists to disintermediate the…
Ledger Suffers Another Data Leak
Ledger customers’ data has been leaked yet again, putting the state-of-the-art hardware wallet company into another compromising position. Ledger announced on Twitter that it has been targeted by rogue Shopify team members who exported over 200 merchants’ customer databases in…
A Blockchain Expert Might be the New SEC Head
Joe Biden’s new SEC chair may be, if not an advocate, at least very knowledgeable on blockchain technology. President-elect Joe Biden will be appointing MIT professor Gary Gensler as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Reuters reported. Gensler…
EIP-1559 Is Ready. Or is it?
Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559, a long awaited update to Ethereum’s core codebase, was rumored to be ready for deployment yesterday in a leaked Discord conversation on Twitter. The proposal aims to change Ethereum’s transaction fee mechanism to improve user experience…
DeFi Founders Empathize With Cronje’s “Rant”
Yearn Finance founder and prolific DeFi builder Andre Cronje posted a part two to his initial post “Building in #DeFi sucks.” And while they didn’t say it sucks, other prominent founders in the space agreed that the pressure is on.…
Notional Comes out of Stealth With Fixed Lending Protocol
Notional Finance has come out of stealth with $3M in liquidity following a closed beta over the past quarter. Notional users can lend and borrow the stablecoins DAI and USDC at fixed rates using ETH or WBTC as collateral. A…
Aragon Faces Wave of Resignations and It’s Not Clear Why
[Story was updated at 2:58pm EST] The Aragon community is facing mass resignations and nobody in the leadership team is being forthright as to what exactly is driving the exodus. The latest high-profile resignation was from Jorge Izquierdo, chief executive…
Elastic Finance: Definition, Use Cases and Framework by AmpleSense DAO
Rebase Tokens and Elastic Finance: They’re Not What You Think Elastic finance (EeFi) offers an exciting monetary and technological innovation, the likes of which has not been seen in the cryptocurrency market in many years. The emerging elastic finance sub-sector…
ShapeShift Embraces DeFi, Axes KYC
ShapeShift will be fully embracing DeFi protocols and getting rid of KYC. The Colorado-based company will now route traders to decentralized exchanges, rather than holding cryptocurrency and being the counterparty in customers’ trades. This change allows it to stop collecting…
SushiSwap Drains Uniswap Liquidity. Still, Everyone Won
DeFi experienced what seemed like its first-ever hostile takeover today, except instead of stock buyouts and management shakedowns, it was driven by users switching platforms following their own economic incentives.Crypto capitalism at its finest. 1) well the migration is done; sushiswap is livehttps://t.co/c2JGZJ65Ch— SBF (@SBF_Alameda)…
SushiSwap's Vampire Scheme: Hours Away and With $1.3B at Stake
Hello Defiers! Today’s issue focuses on the SushiSwap / Uniswap debacle, which is shaping up to be one of the most interesting developments in DeFi this year. In less than two days SushiSwap will try to drainUniswap’s liquidity. With $1.3B still in SushiSwap, LPs may…
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The Defiant's Definitive Guide to DeFi
The Defiant is the leading information company at the intersection of tech and money. It’s the only content platform producing unbiased, objective journalism, that’s focused on decentralized finance. We cover the news in this space day to day, across our newsletter, podcast, YouTube channel, and website.
This guide is meant to be a one-stop-shop to get started. These are all the DeFi basics you will need to start exploring the internet of money.
